Posted 12/08/2004 05:35:00 PM by Douglas

It's kinda odd that the latest "47 year old high school teacher nails a 16 year old kid" is coming from Amarillo, Texas this time.

The Randall County District Attorney's office Tuesday charged a 47-year-old Amarillo High School technology teacher, Martha Lynn Perry, with sexual assault of a child.

The alleged victim is a 16-year-old male who was not one of Perry's students.

Victim? I am not trying to speak for this poor lad, but as a person that was once a 16 year old male, I can say that using the word "victim" to describe a kid that's gettin' jiggy with an older woman is terribly misplaced. "Fortunate" might be a better way to describe him.

Perry faces one count of sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony, for allegedly committing a sex act with the 16-year-old male during a June 25 encounter, according to the court complaint.

I'm going to have to conclude that the sex act was consensual since she's not being charged with rape. Which opens up the next question, who cares?

I'm going to assert something that makes feminists froth at the mouth, but there are differences between men and women, and there's a huge chasm between a 50 year old man banging a 16 year old girl and an older woman screwing someone under 18. Inappropriate? Possibly. Unacceptable for a teacher? Absolutely. Kinda creepy? Most definitely, it shouldn't be any more illegal than if it happened on his 18th birthday.

And a word to the "victim" in this case, who no doubt is in some kind of counseling for this assault (which probably consisted of "high-fiving" his buddies). You may not know it now, kid, but you're doing something right.